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Chapter49 Troubleshooting
Using Ping
Destination unreachable—If the default gateway cannot reach the specified network, a
destination-unreachable message is returned.
Network or host unreachable—If there is no entry in the route table for the host or network, a
network or host unreachable message is returned.
Executing Ping
If you attempt to ping a host in a different IP subnetwork, you must define a static route to the network
or have IProuting configured to route between those subnets. For more information, see Chapter 38,
“Configuring IP Unicast Routing.”
IP routing is disabled by default on all switches. If you need to enable or configure IP routing, see
Chapter 38, “Configuring IP Unicast Routing.”
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, use this command to ping another device on the network from the
switch:
Note Though other protocol keywords are available with the ping command, they are not supported in this
release.
This example shows how to ping an IP host:
Switch# ping 172.20.52.3
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echoes to 172.20.52.3, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/4 ms
Switch#
Table49-1 describes the possible ping character output.
Command Purpose
ping ip host | address Ping a remote host through IP or by supplying the hostname or
network address.
Table49-1 Ping Output Display Characters
Character Description
! Each exclamation point means receipt of a reply.
. Each period means the network server timed out while waiting for a reply.
U A destination unreachable error PDU was received.
C A congestion experienced packet was received.
I User interrupted test.
? Unknown packet type.
& Packet lifetime exceeded.